{"id":4788,"date":"2010-07-30T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2010-07-30T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:45:42","slug":"chevys-re-volt-ing-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/chevys-re-volt-ing-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevy&#8217;s re-Volt-ing new song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahawk.typepad.com\/iowahawk\/2010\/07\/drove-my-chevy-off-the-levee.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iowahawk<\/a> tries to find the right way to introduce the new Chevy Volt (click through to get the full linkulacious glory):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consider, if you will, Chevy&#8217;s once proud musical history: In the Fifties, Dinah Shore famously saw the USA in her Chevrolet. In the Sixties the Beach Boys saved their pennies and saved their dimes for a 4-speed dual quad positraction 409, while Shutting Down a 413 Superstock Dodge with a fuel injected Stingray; Paul Revere and the Raiders countered with a porcupine Chevelle SS 396. Those vatos from War rocked the Seventies gas crisis in an Impala Low-ri-der, while Sammy Johns was alright with makin&#8217; love in his creepy Chevy Van. In the Eighties, the Dead Milkmen sang the praises of a Bitchin&#8217; Camaro; In the Nineties the Ramones further egged it on with Go Little Camaro Go.<\/p>\n<p>Fine iPod selections all, and in praise of a revered American car brand. Now behold &mdash; if you dare &mdash; the brave new world of government-sponsored Chevrolet song.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xvwTMZNWGuk&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowahawk tries to find the right way to introduce the new Chevy Volt (click through to get the full linkulacious glory): Consider, if you will, Chevy&#8217;s once proud musical history: In the Fifties, Dinah Shore famously saw the USA in her Chevrolet. In the Sixties the Beach Boys saved their pennies and saved their dimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[97,111,156,278],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-advertising","tag-cars","tag-fail","tag-governmentmotors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}